Habilitation (venia legendi materials engineering) in the Department of Production Engineering
University of Bremen; topic of the habilitation thesis: Nitriding and nitrocarburizing of gears; evaluators, assessment, report: Prof. Fechte-Heinen (University of Bremen), Prof. Broeckmann (RWTH Aachen), Prof. Rezwan (University of Bremen)
01/2012 - 08/2017
Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in the Department of Production Engineering
University of Bremen; doctoral thesis topic: Forging-compatible nitrided dies; expert opinion, assessment, report: Prof. Hoffmann, Prof. Keßler (University of Rostock)
10/2001 - 01/2007
Course of studies of Chemistry with German university degree (Dipl.-Chem.) in the Department of Biology/Chemistry
University of Bremen; topic of the Diplom thesis: Analysis of the effect of alternative corrosion inhibitors on the corrosion of the Al alloys Al-2024 and Al-7075 in aqueous chloride-containing items; supervisor: Prof. Swiderek
09/2024 - today
Professors / member of the academic staff in materials science
Aalen University of Applied Sciences - Technician and Economy, Business
08/2021 - 08/2024
Team leader nitriding
Leibniz Institute for Materials-oriented Technologies - IWT in Bremen
01/2007 - 07/2021
Member of staff (pl. staff), employee (pl. employees) in the heat treatment department
Leibniz Institute for Materials-Oriented Technologies - IWT in Bremen
03/2022 - today
Management of AWT departments
"Nitriding and nitrocarburizing in practice", "Plasma nitriding and nitrocarburizing", "Component cleaning"